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Game Theory: How Play Is Changing Everything
Episode 1
Roblox: Play & the AI Revolution
David Baszucki
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Xbox: Play & the Power of Anywhere
Sarah Bond
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Scopely: Play & the Learning Machine
Walter Driver
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Unity: Play & the Innovation Engine
Matt Bromberg
Episode 5
Niantic: Play & the Real World
John Hanke
Episode 6
Take-Two: Play & the Quest for Lasting Value
Strauss Zelnick
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We're still in the stone age: the 1D or 2D phase of auto generation—not the 3D or 4D phase. I don't think we can even imagine what types of games we're going to see in 5 to 10 years.
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David Baszucki Co-Founder & CEO of Roblox
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Games are fundamental to how the human brain learns and develops, and understands the bounds of what is and isn't possible. It's permitted as a child, yet somewhat discouraged as an adult. But when you take no risk, you make no progress.
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Sarah Bond President of Xbox at Microsoft
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I think making games is kind of a game. One of the things that we've tried to make Scopely from the beginning was not just a company, but to try and design it as a learning machine.
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Walter Driver Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Scopely
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The technical demands are so high, the competitive demands are so intense. If you can get something done in that environment, it's going to have benefits outside of gaming.
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Matt Bromberg President & CEO of Unity
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Robots are computers that need to, in many cases, know about the physical world. Humanoid robots—as wild as that seems—are coming. We're going to be working with them, maybe playing with them.
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John Hanke Founder & CEO of Niantic
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It's the intersection of the graphics and the story and the technology and the gameplay—this ineffable thing called gameplay. All wrapped up in quality. And it's so hard to do.
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Strauss Zelnick Chairman & CEO of Take-Two Interactive

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